Hi,

I'm getting the following OOPS with 2.6.14-rc2 on an Alpha.

The OOPS is repeatable. 2.6.13 works fine on this box (except for some
strange problems with st.ko staying in "Loading" state and never
entering "Live" state in /proc/modules). Here's the OOPS:

Linux version 2.6.14-rc2 (lapinlam@raato) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #15 Mon Sep 26 23:12:20 EEST 2005
Booting on Alcor variation Alcor using machine vector Alcor from SRM
Major Options: LEGACY_START VERBOSE_MCHECK MAGIC_SYSRQ 
Command line: console=ttyS0
memcluster 0, usage 1, start        0, end      161
memcluster 1, usage 0, start      161, end    32651
memcluster 2, usage 1, start    32651, end    32768
freeing pages 161:384
freeing pages 767:32651
reserving pages 767:768
2048K Bcache detected; load hit latency 24 cycles, load miss latency 88 cycles
pci: cia revision 1
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 32768 bytes)
Using epoch = 2000
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 253560k/261208k available (1977k kernel code, 5696k reserved, 294k data, 152k init)
Kernel bug at mm/slab.c:1767
swapper(0): Kernel Bug 1
pc = [<fffffc00003593ec>]  ra = [<fffffc000035939c>]  ps = 0000    Not tainted
pc is at kmem_cache_create+0x6dc/0x800
ra is at kmem_cache_create+0x68c/0x800
v0 = 0000000000000000  t0 = 0000000000000001  t1 = fffffc0000593ca8
t2 = 00000000000000d0  t3 = fffffc0000593df8  t4 = 0000000000000001
t5 = ffffffffffffffff  t6 = fffffc00005821d8  t7 = fffffc0000588000
a0 = 0000000000000000  a1 = 00000000000000d0  a2 = 0000000000000001
a3 = 00000000000000d0  a4 = 0000000000000000  a5 = 0000000000000000
t8 = 0000000000000000  t9 = 00000000ffffffff  t10= 0000000000200200
t11= 0000000000100100  pv = 0000000000000000  at = fffffc00005821e8
gp = fffffc00005d7700  sp = fffffc000058be18
Trace:
[<fffffc000031001c>] __start+0x1c/0x20


Code: b7e00050  b7e00030  a59dbc78  ed7fffeb  c3ffff4f  00000081 <000006e7> 0050dad7 
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!


The system is an Alphastation 600 5/266, system variation Alcor.

raato% cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu                     : Alpha
cpu model               : EV5
cpu variation           : 7
cpu revision            : 0
cpu serial number       : 
system type             : Alcor
system variation        : Alcor
system revision         : 0
system serial number    : 
cycle frequency [Hz]    : 266666666 
timer frequency [Hz]    : 1024.00
page size [bytes]       : 8192
phys. address bits      : 40
max. addr. space #      : 127
BogoMIPS                : 528.12
kernel unaligned acc    : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
user unaligned acc      : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
platform string         : Digital AlphaStation 600 5/266
cpus detected           : 1
L1 Icache               : 8K, 1-way, 32b line
L1 Dcache               : 8K, 1-way, 32b line
L2 cache                : 96K, 3-way, 64b line
L3 cache                : 2048K, 1-way, 64b line


.config is attached below.

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Regards,

Tomi

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